By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Financial Strategies Article Published May 11, 2012
Everyone's keenly aware of managing unstructured data and its legal implications but the real problem with ediscovery lies with massive dynamic structured data repositories, writes David White of Seyfarth Shaw LLP.
By Pam Baker
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Financial Strategies Article Published Apr 6, 2012
It is uncomfortably common for offshoring projects big and small to go bad. So what do you when this happens? How do you get things back on track and not break the bank? Hint: Money's not the answer.
By Faisal Hoque
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Financial Strategies Article Published Mar 21, 2012
Before ascending into the virtual world of puffy white haze, be sure your strategy is clear enough to keep your focused on the business, writes Faisal Hoque of BTM Corporation.
By Dennis Drogseth
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Financial Strategies Article Published Mar 16, 2012
Service management tools are a must if you want to get the most out of your cloud initiatives, writes Dennis Drogseth of Enterprise Management Associates.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Financial Strategies Article Published Mar 6, 2012
With data growing out of control a content management system is a good way to reign in and manage content, writes Rob Vandenberg of Lingotek.
By Pam Baker
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Financial Strategies Article Published Feb 24, 2012
The ever-popular freemium software model may bring in converts but it also binds IT in ways that could compromise security, data access and control.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Financial Strategies Article Published Feb 16, 2012
Tape backup still plays an important role in the corporate DR strategy, writes Dick Fordham of Recovery Point. Just ask Google and Amazon.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Financial Strategies Article Published Jan 30, 2012
A solid EA function does more than just streamline IT, writes Madeline Weiss of Society for Information Management's Advanced Practices Council.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Financial Strategies Article Published Jan 27, 2012
The acronym SLA stands for “service level agreement,” but what it really means for a managed service provider is “commitment," writes Mike Alley of Logicalis.
By CIO Update Staff
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Financial Strategies Article Published Jan 24, 2012
IT companies express tempered optimism heading into the first quarter of the year, though longer-term prospects look more promising.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Financial Strategies Article Published Jan 13, 2012
Social media is expected to become the preferred communications platform worldwide so it's time to go global and localize, writes Rob Vandenberg of Lingotek.
By Dennis Drogseth
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Financial Strategies Article Published Dec 28, 2011
Calculators ain't going to cut it, writes Dennis Drogseth of Enterprise Management Associates.
By Pam Baker
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Financial Strategies Article Published Dec 8, 2011
If you've been waiting to ink that new server contract, you should probably get it done before Jan. 1 if you want to get them 100% tax free.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Financial Strategies Article Published Nov 22, 2011
You have to look at every thing holistically then get rid of the parts you don't have to do yourself, writes Alejandro Camino of Softtek.
By Greg Baker
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Financial Strategies Article Published Nov 16, 2011
Having IT and business leaders speaking two different languages is a dysfunction no organization can afford in today's down economy, writes Greg Baker of Logicalis.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Financial Strategies Article Published Nov 14, 2011
While certainly a great protective measure, cyber liability insurance isn’t a substitute for great risk management practices, writes Brian Lapidus of Kroll.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Financial Strategies Article Published Nov 4, 2011
The patch-work of jurisdictions and bolt-on federal rules could leave you in a very bad position if you don't know where your data is, writes Jake Frazier of the Compliance, Governance and Oversight Council (CGOC).
By Pam Baker
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Financial Strategies Article Published Oct 31, 2011
Because of the threat it poses to your brand, cyber security can no longer be viewed as an afterthought or something 'someone in IT' does.
By Patty Azzarello
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Financial Strategies Article Published Oct 21, 2011
By being connected to the annual budget process, most strategic planning exercises are doomed to fail, writes Patty Azzarello of the Azzarello Group.
By Pam Baker
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Financial Strategies Article Published Oct 11, 2011
When it comes to IT spending, enterprises are putting more cash on the table but only for safe bets.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Financial Strategies Article Published Sep 26, 2011
Adopting cost-effective green IT solutions to lower costs is hard but it can be done without reinventing the wheel, writes Bill Blausey of Eaton Corporation.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Financial Strategies Article Published Sep 23, 2011
U.S.-based rural IT outsourcers aren't competing with the Indian heavy weights yet but they allow smaller firms to take advantage of labor arbitrage anyway, writes Max Staines of Compass Management Consulting.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Financial Strategies Article Published Sep 19, 2011
Adopting cost-effective green IT solutions to lower costs is hard but it can be done without reinventing the wheel, writes Bill Blausey of Eaton Corporation.
By Pam Baker
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Financial Strategies Article Published Sep 7, 2011
Despite all the bean-counting, process refinement and policy polishing, one bill remains stubbornly out of control.
By Pam Baker
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Financial Strategies Article Published Sep 2, 2011
For one thing, get your potential provider to release their SLA without an NDA and see what happens.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Financial Strategies Article Published Aug 12, 2011
Any discussion about utility computing's (a.k.a., cloud, on-demand, shared services, etc.) real benefits is still a little premature, writes Max Staines of Compass Management Consulting.
By Pam Baker
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Financial Strategies Article Published Aug 10, 2011
Until ROI and TCO can be fully examined, it's still too early to know if cloud can replace traditional offshore outsourcing.
By CIOUpdate Contributor
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Financial Strategies Article Published Aug 8, 2011
Project assurance is a methodology designed to lead to better project management and outcomes, writes Rob Prinzo of The Prinzo Group.
By Augusto Perazzo
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Financial Strategies Article Published Jul 12, 2011
Yes, but you have to look at the right metrics and set a baseline, writes Augusto Perazzo of PA Consulting.
By Greg Baker
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Financial Strategies Article Published Jul 6, 2011
Talk about disaster recovery (BC/DR in IT-speak) in business terms and the CFO can be sold, writes Greg Baker of Logicalis.
By Dennis Drogseth
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Financial Strategies Article Published Jun 21, 2011
CMDB vendors are just now putting out solutions that are worth a look, writes CIOUpdate columnist Dennis Drogseth of EMA.
By Max Staines
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Financial Strategies Article Published May 24, 2011
The benefits of utility computing (aka, cloud, SxxS, shared services, etc.) are only obtained with careful change management practices, writes CIOUpdate columnist Max Staines of Compass Management Consulting.
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